Rejected Activist Rant

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The only thing I took issue with was that the editor-in-chief dude thought I was excusing "hearts and minds", which I sorta WAS, but in the 1945 sense, not the 1965 sense.

I wasn't "excusing" it, really.  I was describing something EFFECTIVE.  As compared to the shit that went on 20 years later.

I'll take a history lesson and some horror. The Hershey bar thing was news to me, what was the '65 fuckup? It's got to be something to do with Vietnam, right? Bringing troops, "training" and equipment instead of luxury foods?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(Vietnam)

[Junkenstein]

Thanks, it's late and I'm not paying attention.

[Doktor Howl]

Would you be opposed to this being done up flyer style?

Not even slightly.  Attribute to Doktor Hamish Howl.

[Reginald Ret]

The only thing I took issue with was that the editor-in-chief dude thought I was excusing "hearts and minds", which I sorta WAS, but in the 1945 sense, not the 1965 sense.

I wasn't "excusing" it, really.  I was describing something EFFECTIVE.  As compared to the shit that went on 20 years later.

I'll take a history lesson and some horror. The Hershey bar thing was news to me, what was the '65 fuckup? It's got to be something to do with Vietnam, right? Bringing troops, "training" and equipment instead of luxury foods?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(Vietnam)

See also

    Body count

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

http://imgur.com/a/drRtn

Wound up going over the one-whole-page line, so the fourth half-sheet is just filler